Scientists will work to channel the huge emerging power of quantum computers for the common good at a new institute that opened in Geneva on Tuesday, its founders said.
Quantum Physics
Mar 5, 2024
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Semiconductors are ubiquitous in modern technology, working to either enable or prevent the flow of electricity. In order to understand the potential of two-dimensional semiconductors for future computer and photovoltaic ...
Optics & Photonics
Feb 12, 2024
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A warming world is transforming some major snowfalls into extreme rain over mountains instead, somehow worsening both dangerous flooding like the type that devastated Pakistan last year as well as long-term water shortages, ...
Environment
Jul 1, 2023
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An international team of 28 scientists, stakeholders, and other experts has found that sea level rise, even under high-end projections, would not exceed about 3 feet (0.9 meters) by the end of this century and 8 feet (2.5 ...
Environment
Nov 3, 2022
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Carbon-based materials hold enormous potential for building a sustainable future, but material scientists need tools to properly analyze their atomic structure, which determines their functional properties. X-ray photoelectron ...
Analytical Chemistry
Jul 21, 2022
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Extracting metals from oxides at high temperatures is essential not only for producing metals such as steel but also for recycling. Because current extraction processes are very carbon-intensive, emitting large quantities ...
Materials Science
Dec 1, 2021
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From movie suggestions to self-driving vehicles, machine learning has revolutionized modern life. Experts are now using it to help solve one of humanity's biggest problems: climate change.
Earth Sciences
Aug 18, 2021
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Sylvain Barbot is trying to do what can't be done yet: reliably predict earthquakes. The assistant professor at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences knows that it's impossible—at least not yet. But he ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 7, 2020
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Maerl beds stud the ocean floor like underwater brambles. They're pastel pink and, despite their knobbly appearance, made up of a red seaweed. This algae has a limestone skeleton which gives it a complex three-dimensional ...
Ecology
Sep 15, 2020
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The area of agricultural land that will require irrigation in future could be up to four times larger than currently estimated, a new study has revealed.
Earth Sciences
May 4, 2020
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